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Microsoft Visual Basic VBP Stack Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Sep 4, 2007
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Microsoft Visual Basic
6.0. A specially crafted Visual Basic Project (VBP) file containing
a long reference line can be used to execute arbitrary code.

Authors

Koshi
MC [email protected]
bcoles [email protected]

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x86

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/windows/fileformat/ms_visual_basic_vbp
    msf exploit(ms_visual_basic_vbp) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(ms_visual_basic_vbp) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(ms_visual_basic_vbp) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(ms_visual_basic_vbp) > exploit
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